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personal ICT devices and data access charges, it is important to remember that the Library is the place to birth Life Dreams and Set Goals.
The Library is Key to Life Successes
Libraries are essential to life successes and self-satisfaction and it is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other people’s lives religions, experiences, hopes and life dreams. The Library remains an invaluable base for access to knowledge and the first place to birth a dream and a clear vision that fires up the practicability of dreams.
Orienting Yourself into the Library
If you are entering a library for the first time or after a long time, you will need to re-orientate yourself by taking a walk around or request the Librarian for a tour of the Library facilities. Libraries are mostly arranged in similar pattern and this is the section where you learn about your local library. If, however, you are familiar with the library, you should proceed to the section of your interest. Usually, on entering the Library, you will go to the main catalogue or the computers for the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) to search for books and journals and electronic collections of the Library to make your selections, write down the authors and call numbers. From here, you will move to the shelves to locate your selections. Remember to look at both sides of the isle for related authors on the same or similar subject.
·New Books and Journals’ Display Section: When you walk into a library, one of the first things you are likely to see is the new Book arrival section, where the newly acquired latest books and journals are displayed on respective stacks for readers to find them easily. You will find here current nonfiction titles, journals and magazines to support your research topic and study.
·Special Exhibition Display Cases or Stands or tables: You may find exhibition tables/stands at the lobbies with special displays such as research outcome, during holidays or special occasions to commemorate historical events or feats in the community properly laid out at the entrance of a library. This is usually highly educative.
·Reference Books: Reference books are usually kept separately from the other nonfiction books because they cannot be borrowed and usually for quick reference only.
·Adult Nonfiction Books: The Adult Nonfiction Books are usually classified by subjects and arranged on the open stacks according to the Library of Congress Classification Scheme (LC) or Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme (DDC) or Elizabeth Moys Classification Scheme for Law book collections. You might also notice that there are computers-OPAC or catalogue that will allow you to find the books you need. The Open Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) will allow you to search by title, author, or subject, based on your need and search strategy.
·Journals and Magazines: Learned and peer reviewed Journals and Magazines are arranged separately for easy access. Usually, Library shelves are labeled according to the classification in use for readers’ guidance.
Our Current Library Digital Databases Platform
There is need to pay attention to the way the library can be effectively utilized, given the new terrain of the emerging technologies in the world. The Baze University Library is highly loaded and digitally ready to serve you through its subscribed and aggregated Digital Databases. We are current in the print and electronic collections up to 2021 titles in stock. Our Library e-resources are not only rich but current. We are subscribed (2021 – 2022) to a host of electronic digital databases namely: EBSCO HOST Academic Research Complete, e- Granary, Z-Library, Library Genesis, Science Direct, IEEE, Tailor and Frances (T&F), Bold Scholar, OECD, PDFDrive, LexisNexis, Legalpedia, Hein Online, Law Pavilion, DOAJ, AJOL, HINARI, JSTOR, etc,, etc., It is therefore my pleasure to invite you to take the maximum advantage of the currency, recency, and abundance of resources in the Baze University Library with a view to using it effectively.
